2018:025 - DUBLIN: Pensioner’s Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: DUBLIN: Pensioner’s Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 17E0572
Author: Dermot Nelis
Author/Organisation Address: 36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 712730m, N 733900m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343304, -6.307071
Development will involve installation of seven new-cast plinths to act as headstones in the Pensioner’s Graveyard, Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The new plinths will each measure 0.63m long x 0.48m wide, and excavation will be limited to a depth of approximately 0.3m. It is intended to restore approximately 280 headstones on plinths on a phased basis over several years.
No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed during monitoring.